adult fiction
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Adult fictionWar in the Wasteland
by Douglas Bond 273 pages / 2016 RATING: Gift “Second Lieutenant C.S. Lewis in the trenches of WWI” – if that doesn’t grab you, I…
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Book ReviewsInnocent Heroes: Stories of animals in the First World War
by Sigmund Brouwer 2017 / 186 pages RATING: Gift Animals had a way bigger role in WWI than you probably ever realized. Sigmund Brouwer’s fantastic…
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Adult fictionTime will run back
by Henry Hazlitt 368 pages / 1951 Rating: Good/GREAT/Gift As novels go, this is intriguing. As economics textbooks go it is downright amazing. Like 1984……
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Adult fictionEve’s Daughters
by Lynn Austin 1999 / 432 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This book was recommended to me by a good friend. I was a little skeptical (Christian women’s…
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Book lists50 “Great Books”
What are the “Great Books”? There is no one list, but the term is meant to describe a compilation of classics from Western Literature. Some…
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Adult fictionWhere the blue sky begins
by Katie Powner 2022 / 343 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give The back cover pitched this as, quirky dying woman meets confident cute guy. Hmmm…. I don’t know…
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Adult fictionShoofly Pie
by Tim Downs 2003 / 371 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Did you know that insects have been known to help solve murder investigations? One of the…
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Adult fictionWinterflight
by Joseph Bayly 1981 / 216 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give In this dystopian novel, Joseph Bayly takes us to a not-so-distant future in which abortion for…
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Adult fictionThe White Rose Resists: a novel of the German students who defied Hitler
by Amanda Barratt 2020 / 320 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give In Amanda Barratt’s novel The White Rose Resists, a candle is being lit in the midst of…
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Adult fictionFather Brown and the Ten Commandments: Selected Mystery Stories
by G.K. Chesterton 2017 / 249 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give An heiress of a large fortune has fallen to her death, and suicide seems the obvious explanation….
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Adult fictionThe Battle for Seattle
by Douglas Bond 2016 / 303 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Even Canadians have probably heard of Paul Revere’s daring midnight ride to Lexington, Massachusetts…but have you heard…
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Book ReviewsThe Hobgoblins: a novel on John Bunyan
by Douglas Bond 2020 / 268 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give There are people who carry out such heinous acts and live such immoral lives that we’d think,…
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Adult fictionThe Gospel Blimp (And Other Parables)
by Joe Bayly 2013 / 155 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give We all have people in our lives that we should share the Gospel with but we…
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Adult fictionLetters Along The Way, from a Senior Saint to a Junior Saint
by D.A. Carson & John Woodbridge 2022 / 373 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Christians have long had the chance, in C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, to eavesdrop…
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Adult fictionSugar Birds
by Cheryl Grey Bostrom2021 / 328 Pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This page-turner takes place in the Pacific Northwest, a little north of Seattle, and tells the story of two girls…
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Adult fictionThe Last Disciple
by Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaff 2004 / 428 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give It’s the year 65 AD, and Gallus Sergius Vitas is one of the…
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Adult fictionEvening Star
by Sigmund Brouwer 2000 / 317 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Set on the 1870s American frontier, this might at first glance seem to be a Western. But…
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Adult fictionOnce Upon a Wardrobe
by Patti Callahan 2021 / 285 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT The year is 1950, and an eight-year-old George Henry Devonshire has finished a book, just published,…
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Book ReviewsEcho Island: the silence holds a secret
by Jared C. Wilson 251 pages / 2020 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give After celebrating their high school graduation with one last group camping trip, four friends return home…
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Book ReviewsJourney Through the Night
by Anne De Vries 372 pages / 1951 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Christian writers these days, they just don’t know subtlety. They write miraculous stories where the…
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Adult fictionChasing Shadows
432 pages / 2021 by Lynn Austin Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Chasing Shadows takes place in WWII Holland and is a novel about choices and consequences. Miriam, a…
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Adult fictionDawn of Wonder
by Jonathan Renshaw 2015 / 708 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This might, at first glance, seem to be your typical boy-meets-girl, boy-dares-girl-to-jump-off-of-a-thousand-foot-high-bridge-into-the-icy-cold-stream-below-and-girl-shows-him-up-by-actually-doing-it story. And, as many a…
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Adult fictionFlags out front
A Contrarian’s Daydream by Douglas Wilson 196 pages / 2017 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT In Flags out Front, Douglas Wilson has crafted something that is as inspirational as…
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Adult fictionChasing Fireflies
by Charles Martin 340 pages / 2007 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is part murder mystery, part adoption story (times two), and part…well, superhero epic. The murder mystery…
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Book excerptsWhen C.S. Lewis was an atheist…
An excerpt from Douglas Bond’s novel War in the Wasteland Editor’s note: This excerpt takes place during a prolonged Germany artillery barrage that has the…
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Adult fictionThe Seraph’s Path
by Neil Dykstra 2019 / 475 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Maybe I should have gotten someone else to review this, what with me sharing the same…
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Adult fictionGreg Dawson and the psychology class
by Jay Adams 2008 / 149 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is a novel, but it’d be more accurate to call it a textbook masquerading as…
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Adult fictionLord Foulgrin’s and Screwtape’s letters: why you should read this devilish correspondence
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis 1942 / 200 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Lord Foulgrin’s Letters by Randy Alcorn 2001 / 208 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Normally,…
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Book lists3 provocative, powerful, PG-rated, dystopian novels
The best dystopian books warn us of an undesirable future that seems far too likely for our peace of mind. The most famous examples are 1984…
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Book lists3 great Christian novels
If the fiction section in your local Christian bookstore is all-Amish all the time, then here are 4 recommendations of a very different sort: a…
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Adult fictionKatharina, Katharina: the story of Katharina Schutz Zell
by Christine Farenhorst 328 pages / 2017 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give In the past year, inspired by the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing up his 95…
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Adult fictionWhen Crickets Cry
by Charles Martin 2006 / 352 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give He is unkempt, a recluse, and heartsick. She is a pale thin young girl with a very…
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Adult fictionIs There Balm in Gilead?
There is a balm in Gilead To make the wounded whole; There is a balm in Gilead To heal the sin-sick soul. Some times I…